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Voyager 1 Still Sailing 14 Billion Miles Beyond Earth


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Built in 1977 when disco ruled, NASA’s car-sized Voyagers are 15+ billion miles out, blazing ~38,000 mph, still pinging Earth with a 20-watt whisper. They found Io’s volcanoes, revealed Saturn’s ringlets, and Voyager 2 is still the only visitor to Uranus and Neptune—now both are sampling the turbulent heliosphere edge and denser-than-expected interstellar space (22+ hr light-time) via the Deep Space Network. Each carries the Golden Record—Beethoven, Chuck Berry, whale songs, greetings in 55 languages, a pulsar map and uranium timestamp—our mixtape for aliens.
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